Hideki Matsui Unable To Grasp Translator's Explanation Of Where Cory Lidle Is

NEW YORK—Hideki Matsui's interpreter Roger Kahlon has been
unable explain to the Yankees' Japanese-speaking left fielder that former
teammate Cory Lidle died instantaneously last Wednesday after flying his
four-seat, SR20 aircraft into a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan's
Upper East Side. "At this point, I'm pretty sure [Matsui] thinks Lidle is
either in his four-bedroom apartment or on a 20-minute plane ride to upstate New
York," Kahlon said, adding that in order to make Lidle's whereabouts clear to
Matsui, he has even resorted to making one of his hands into a plane, the other
into a building, crashing them together, and making explosion noises. "This
kind of thing just doesn't translate very well." According to Kahlon, the last
time he asked Matsui where Cory Lidle was, a confused Matsui answered, "The
bullpen."